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It’s Time To Start Building A Budget For Next Year’s Landscaping Plan. The Good News Is, You’ll Have More Freedom To Focus Elsewhere When You Entrust Your Grounds Care To The Landscape Management Professionals Of U.S. Lawns From The Very Start!

Whether you’re responsible for the grounds of an apartment community, hotel or resort, medical facility, office park, manufacturing plant, assisted living environment, retail shopping center, or any other commercial property, making sure your landscape is supporting your business rather than detracting from it, is a top priority–one that can quickly become overwhelming, especially if you don’t have a lot of experience with landscaping. 

Fortunately, you can entrust your grounds care planning to the landscape management professionals at your local U.S. Lawns. We’ll even help you build your annual landscaping budget, giving you more freedom to focus on all the other tasks on your list. 

Now, you may be thinking that you still have plenty of time to get to next year’s landscape maintenance plan, but there are some real advantages to looking ahead today, instead of putting it off until tomorrow; here are five big ones. 

Five Benefits Of Planning For The Future Needs Of Your Landscape

Landscape Health – having a healthy landscape is vital for many reasons. Curb appeal is probably the most common one; but more importantly, a thriving lawn with well pruned, flourishing trees, shrubs and other plants is incredibly beneficial for:

    1. Erosion Prevention – soil erosion is much more likely to take place when there are areas of bare dirt (which indicates poor soil health), particularly on hillsides and steeply graded areas, whereas healthy turf slows fast flowing water and is better able to absorb it, preventing overflow from carrying off soil and debris. 
    2. Pest, Fungus & Disease Management – maintaining a healthy landscape is the most effective way to manage pest infestations as well as fungus and disease, all of which are attracted to plants and trees in poor health. This makes staying on top of your landscaping needs advantageous to your landscaping budget, since plant health services can become expensive. 
    3. Pollution Control – as you may have read in our recent article “Supporting Sustainability Through A Healthy Landscape,” green spaces are invaluable when it comes to cleaning our air, filtering contaminants out of our ground water, blocking noise and light pollution, and even regulating the temperature, so again, your healthy landscape is making a real difference to environmental sustainability efforts in countless ways. 

Business Goals – whatever your business endeavor, your landscape makes a powerful contribution–be that drawing in patrons or tenants, providing a safe haven to convalesce and heal, offering an outdoor space for relaxation or recreation, maintaining clear views and easy access for people coming and going, keeping every space in your building occupied, or any combination of these, maintaining your property’s exterior is an ongoing duty that can measurably impact your company’s achievements. If you don’t plan for the future needs of your landscape for any other reason, this should be enough to make you want to get in front of things. 

Cost Savings – we have already touched upon the expenses associated with plant health services, but advance planning for landscaping services can also result in lower costs in a couple of other ways, too.

    1. Long-lived Turf, Trees & Shrubs – when you work together with your U.S. Lawns landscape designers, we’ll help you build a strategy that incorporates plants, trees, shrubberies and grasses which will flourish and thrive in your regional conditions. This is where planning can help you get the most out of your landscaping investment because you’ll be installing the greenery that will last longest. 
    2. Seasonal Color & Mulching – planning for mulching and seasonal color well ahead of time offers two more opportunities to enjoy cost savings, and this is simply due to the fact that your landscaping team is able to get their order in with suppliers early on, while there is a greater availability. Another benefit here is that you’ll have access to a wider variety of flowers and ornamental plants to choose from. 

Community Improvement – keeping an impeccable landscape is good for making the best impression on customers, visitors, employees, and occupants, but it also demonstrates your dedication to improving your community, and that can really give your brand awareness and reputation within the community a major boost!

Less Stress & More Time – if nothing else inspires you to get with your U.S. Lawns landscaping pros and update your landscaping plan today, this certainly should; by making sure all foreseeable landscape enhancement and maintenance services are already scheduled, you’ve just given yourself a gift of less hassle and more time. 

How so? Because you won’t be stressing about finding a snow & ice management contractor or whether or not the irrigation system has been properly winterized when winter and bitter temperatures are on the horizon; nor will you have the concern of major loss, property damage or worse, when an improperly pruned tree breaks in high winds; you won’t be scrambling to find the right colors and varieties of flowers in time for the next seasonal color rotation to take place; and you also won’t be struggling to find extra money in the budget to remove and replace unsightly shrubs or ornamental trees that were unable to survive the climate. 

Partner With The Landscape Management And Enhancement Specialists Of U.S. Lawns Today!

If you’re ready for a team of commercial landscaping specialists that will come and walk your grounds with you, take a close look at your landscape, identify its condition and requirements, listen to your goals and needs with interest, and help you create a comprehensive landscape management plan for the upcoming year, and the years to come, get ahold of us today. Then, you can turn your attention to everything else you’ve got to do with confidence that we’re taking care of your landscape with the same passion we give to our own.

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